Phyllonorycter populi

Phyllonorycter populi is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It was described by Ivan Nikolayevich Filipjev in 1937 and is known from southern Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Phyllonorycter populi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species:
P. populi
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter populi
(Filipjev, 1931)[1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis populi Filipjev, 1931

The larvae feed on Populus alba and Populus nigra. They probably mine the leaves of their host plant.

Taxonomy

Phyllonorycter populi is a replacement name for Lithocolletis populiella.(Filipjev, 1926).

References
  1. Biology and Systematics of the North American Phyllonorycter Leafminers on Salicaceae, with a Synoptic Catalog of the Palearctic Species (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)


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